2022-09-07 2022-09-09
Lens Culture

Black and White Photography — A New Free Guide

Filled with inspiration and insight from artists and industry experts, this free 54-page PDF is a wonderful resource for all photographers interested in making compelling black and white photographs.

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The White House China

These decorative commemorative plates are imaginary “celebrations” of injustices, contradictions and hypocrisies by US presidents over the years — facts and events that are often diminished or omitted from official history.

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In Retrospect

Life-size photographs become stage sets in which the photographer then places herself, interacting with the images to create new combined pictures that evoke meditations on time, distance, and longing.

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Images Vevey — A Preview of the Biennial Festival

Some 45 photographers are featured in the 8th edition of the biennial photography festival in Switzerland — here’s an in-depth preview of what’s on show.

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MADRE

Weaving together Andean folklore and Catholic iconography, Marisol Mendez’s bold and beautiful portraits celebrate the syncretic culture of her home country, Bolivia, through its womxn.

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Samsara — Departure and Reinvention

Alvin Ng has embarked on a sensorial, spiritual journey to connect with his surroundings and to try to photograph the unphotographable.

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Vessel Collection

These images start as drawings, then become temporary constructions that are photographed and then become flat again — playing with the illusion of depth and volume on a 2-dimensional picture plane.

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Lens Culture

Ongoing Narratives

A visual artist from Taiwan incorporates photography, sculpture, and found objects to create work that speaks to physical and psychological experiences, including the uncertainties surrounding her experience as an immigrant in New York.

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British Journal of Photography
Behind the mask: Alys Tomlinson captures the spirit of Italian rural tradition and identity

Behind the mask: Alys Tomlinson captures the spirit of Italian rural tradition and identity

Reading Time: 6 minutes In her latest book, Gli Isolani, the British documentary photographer travels to the countryside of Sardinia, Sicily and the Venetian Lagoon, taking portraits of locals adorned in traditional costumes and masks of the region
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British Journal of Photography
Dress Code: A group show exploring the close connection between clothing and cultural identity

Dress Code: A group show exploring the close connection between clothing and cultural identity

Reading Time: 5 minutes From New York drag queens to rituals in Benin and Togo, and religious folklore in Mexico and Italy, the Arles exhibition interprets the legacy of worldwide coded traditions that influence how people dress
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British Journal of Photography
Carolee Schneemann’s life work is recognised with a major exhibition at the Barbican

Carolee Schneemann’s life work is recognised with a major exhibition at the Barbican

Reading Time: 6 minutes Through her radical mixed media and performance art, Schneemann blazed a trail for liberating feminist expression. Often placing her nude body at the centre, she rallied against misogyny and patriarchal attitudes, asserting that the personal is political
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British Journal of Photography
Juan Brenner: A New Era

Juan Brenner: A New Era

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the Guatemalan Highlands, a new generation is coming of age, adopting the culture of global youth for an aesthetic that blends tradition and contemporary trends. After a turbulent time away, Brenner returned to his homeland looking for personal peace and, with his latest project, documents a turning point in the country’s troubled history
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British Journal of Photography
Capturing Central Park’s vibrant community, Scott Rossi illustrates the importance of public spaces

Capturing Central Park’s vibrant community, Scott Rossi illustrates the importance of public spaces

Reading Time: 3 minutes In his debut monograph, Rossi explores the connection between New Yorkers and the city’s green lung: “I wanted to reflect the diversity of the people, landscapes, and moments that make Central Park the extraordinary place it is today”
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British Journal of Photography
Invisible island: How rural working-class photographers are building an ethical contemporary vision of British identity

Invisible island: How rural working-class photographers are building an ethical contemporary vision of British identity

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British Journal of Photography
Images Vevey returns: “We dream big – the sky’s the limit”

Images Vevey returns: “We dream big – the sky’s the limit”

Reading Time: 3 minutes The biennale’s 50 site-specific installations will light up the Swiss town for three weeks. Here, we speak to the festival’s director Stefano Stoll about its bold, playful, and unpretentious approach
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British Journal of Photography
New narratives: BJP International Photography 2021 Award Winners revealed

New narratives: BJP International Photography 2021 Award Winners revealed

Reading Time: 5 minutes The winners of this year’s award explore culture, identity, motherhood and more, visualising powerful stories in striking new ways
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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #184

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Refocusing the Lens

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RIP Jimmy Fox, Magnum’s ‘eye’

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Magnum Digest #183

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A Statement from Magnum Photos

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Magnum Editions: A New Collection

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Magnum announces its new president

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Magnum launches first NFT Collection

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ASBX
Tomaso Clavarino Padanistan

Tomaso Clavarino Padanistan

The full 2100 Word essay with 11 photographs on Tomaso Clavarino‘s Padanistan published by Studio Faganel and Guest Editions can be found here. Thank you for your support. Summary Text below     “My suggestion is that this is a vital book. I am not sure if it is a bit regional in scope. One […]

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ASBX
Mathieu Chaze Rock, Paper, Scissors

Mathieu Chaze Rock, Paper, Scissors

  Does one need a photobook about someone else’s family? What universal aspects of image-making allow the work to transcend from a family album to a book that illustrates the broader condition of human understanding, behavior, and endeavor? There are notable examples throughout the history of photography where images of an artist’s family are remembered […]

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ASBX
Mimi Plumb The Golden City

Mimi Plumb The Golden City

  We have yet to reconcile the deep chasm of exchange in the American order during the fateful summer and winter of 1969. During the rightfully dubbed Summer of Hate, the Manson Family murders shook the very bedrock of the American free lovin’ psyche. The significance of the murders ended the free wheelin’ summer of […]

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ASBX
Paul Graham: Troubled Land

Paul Graham: Troubled Land

We fail our images and images fail our desires. In trying to deliberate over which side of failure images are consigned to, the human side versus the side of the function of the image itself, it is hard to not implicate oneself in misunderstanding the function of a photographic image. We have come to expect […]

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ASBX
Jeffrey Silverthorne 1946-2022

Jeffrey Silverthorne 1946-2022

One of the most profound experiences of my visual life came with the discovery of Jeffrey Silverthorne’s The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, 1972. I believe that I encountered the image in William Ewing’s book The Body: Photographs of the Human Form, 1994. I could be wrong as I no longer own a copy […]

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ASBX
Teo Becher: Charbon Blanc

Teo Becher: Charbon Blanc

  There is a resurgence in recent years to look at the topic of industry and labor among artists considering the monumental shift that society is experiencing from manual labor to skilled labor. Over half of the projects that I encounter regarding the shift to automation revolve around digital territories-projects about AI, automation, cryptocurrencies, and […]

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ASBX
Alexis Desgagnés: Ammoniaque

Alexis Desgagnés: Ammoniaque

  Ammoniaque is a simple book. I would almost describe the images within it as minimal. Alexis Desgagnés, a Canadian photographer working in Montreal has chosen to focus his attention on one wall, an intimate object oddly teeming with signs of life or human intervention in an industrialized area of the city situated off Moreau […]

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
The Most Beautiful Place in the World

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Faces of Time

Faces of Time

In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Somewhere

Somewhere

She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Constructing an identity through the family archive  / Archon of the family heritage

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…

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